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Mind and Healing
Psychology of the Future
All psychosomatic illness, pioneering psychiatrist Grof says, can benefit from opening to transpersonal experiences.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2004
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"Psychosomatic Wellness" with Candace Pert (lecture, part 1 of 3)
Listen in on Candace Pert's half-day "Psychosomatic Wellness" workshop from the IONS 2005 Conference! Dr. Candace B. Pert, PhD is an internationally recognized, Johns Hopkins-trained neuro-pharmacologist and author of the best-selling book, Molecules of Emotion.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-07-06
- 01:18:27
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"Psychosomatic Wellness" with Candace Pert (lecture, part 2 of 3)
Listen in on Candace Pert's half-day "Psychosomatic Wellness" workshop from the IONS 2005 Conference! Dr. Candace B. Pert, PhD is an internationally recognized, Johns Hopkins-trained neuro-pharmacologist and author of the best-selling book, Molecules of Emotion.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-07-06
- 01:08:23
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"Psychosomatic Wellness" with Candace Pert (lecture, part 3 of 3)
Listen in on Candace Pert's half-day "Psychosomatic Wellness" workshop from the IONS 2005 Conference! Dr. Candace B. Pert, PhD is an internationally recognized, Johns Hopkins-trained neuro-pharmacologist and author of the best-selling book, Molecules of Emotion.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-07-06
- 00:48:28
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"Psychosomatic Wellness" with Candace Pert (teleseminar)
Pert explores the history of her turn towards a noetic worldview, the current frontiers of mindbody science, and an innovative new AIDS treatment she has developed that involves peptides, the informational substances that link body-mind and spirit.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2005-08-24
- 01:00:58
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"Horses, Somatics, and Spirit" with Beverley Kane
Equine Assisted Learning
What can horses teach us about our own physicality and spirituality? What does it mean to be “healthy as a horse”? As evidenced in the growing field of equine-assisted learning ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-07-20
- 00:56:42
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"Psychology of the Future" with Stanislav Grof
In the last five decades, psychedelic therapy and other avenues of modern consciousness research have revealed a rich array of “anomalous” phenomena that have undermined some of the most basic ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-06-15
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Shift Issue 3
INTEGRAL HEALTH AND HEALING
OVERVIEW: SEEDING A NEW MODEL OF MEDICINE
by Marilyn SchlitzHEALING AS ART AND TECHNOLOGY
by Richard GrossingerNURTURANCE: A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE
by Joseph Chilton PearceMIND AND HEALING
by Stanislav GrofMINDFULNESS
by Jon Kabat-ZinnCEREMONIAL HEALING
by Nancy Maryboy and David BegayPEOPLE WHISPERERS
by William Benda and Rondi LightmarkSOCIAL HEALING
by James O'DeaENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
by Michael LernerAN INTEGRAL APPROACH TO THE END OF LIFE
by Karen WyattCHALLENGES OF INTEGRAL MEDICINE
by Sumedha KhannaFrontiers of Research
I Feel Your Pain
by Dean Radin- June - August 2004
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Essential Shifts Interview: Stanislav Grof
What if our propensity to war and aggression had deep roots in the trauma of birth? That’s one of the provocative theories of Dr. Stanislav Grof, drawing from fifty years at the frontiers of consciousness research. There is, he believes, reason for cautious optimism that we can transcend our destructive impulses if large numbers of people engage the healing work that becomes possible in non-ordinary or "holotropic" states such as those used by shamans.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:15
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Intention Downloads Interview: Michael Murphy
In this interview, Esalen’s co-founder Michael Murphy explores the further reaches of human potential, ranging from the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo to the bodybuilding practices of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:26:41
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About/Case Studies/Mind-Body Medicine
IONS Returns Consciousness to Healing: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Medicine, and the Birth of Psychoneuroimmunology “Civilized” Medicine Dismisses Mind/Soul For thousands of years, traditional, indigenous, and Eastern medical traditions integrated ... -
Candace Pert
Dr. Candace B. Pert, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized, Johns Hopkins-trained neuro-pharmacologist and author of the best-selling book, Molecules of Emotions. She is a former NIH section chief and scientific director of Peptide Design L.P., who is now a Georgetown University Medical School Professor. Dr. Pert proved that Mind and Body are one interconnected information system – the BodyMind. She was featured in Bill Moyers' PBS series "Healing the Mind" as well as the recent movie, What the' Bleep' Do We Know!?. Dr. Pert recently founded The Institute of New Medicine, (TINM), a non-profit corporation furthering research and education in the field of Integrative Medicine.
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The Psychology of the Future: An Interview with Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD
While the field of psychology has been slowly taken over by pharmaceutical interventions, the eminent Grof continues to advocate for therapeutic practices that acknowledge the power and legitimacy of non-ordinary states of consciousness as entry points to the deeper psyche.
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Energy Psychology: The Future of Therapy?
What we don’t know about healing dwarfs what we do know, and nowhere is this more apparent than the role of “energy” in restoring balance to a fractured psyche. Energy Psychology, modern psychotherapy’s enfant terrible, is growing up and giving us clues to the mystery of its remarkable power.
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Children’s Memories of Previous Lives
It is clear that for many of these kids this is not a game of make-believe but very important and meaningful for them. They talk about the people they miss. Some of the children cry daily to be taken to someone they say is their real family.
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Ancient Wisdom and the Perfection of Health
The human capacity for lifelong well-being was well known to wise women and men throughout time and across diverse cultures. The ancient Greeks called it eudaimonia—human flourishing, the flourishing of our deepest nature.
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Meditating at Work: A New Approach to Managing Overload
Major corporations are finally giving in: whatever meditation’s woo-woo persona, it’s finding more and more converts and slowly revolutionizing the workplace.
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Neurotheology: The Crucible of Religion
Are spiritual experiences a by-product of brain chemistry, or do they reflect contact with a higher source? Such questions are the focus of an emerging field of scientific study that is finding common ground between the spiritual and the secular.
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Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist and religious scholar, holds a distinguished chair at Baylor University, where he is University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Professor of Medical Humanities, and Director of the Program on Religion and Population Health at the Institute for Studies of Religion. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, where he is a member of the Community of Scholars at the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health.
Dr. Levin received his AB from Duke University in 1981, graduating Magna Cum Laude and with Distinction in both Religion and Sociology. He received his MPH in 1983 from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, and his PhD in Preventive Medicine and Community Health in 1987 from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Medical Branch. He also completed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 1987 to 1989 at the Institute of Gerontology of the University of Michigan, and has additional advanced training in quantitative methods from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Levin is a pioneering scientist whose research and writing beginning in the 1980s helped to create the field of religion, spirituality, and health. He was the first scientist to systematically review the research literature on religion and health, and the first scientist funded by the NIH to conduct research on the topic. His studies have pioneered basic research in the epidemiology of religion and on the impact of religion on the physical and mental health and general well-being of older adults. His research has been funded by several NIH grants, totaling over $1 million in support, and he also has received funding from private sources, including the American Medical Association’s Education and Research Foundation.
Dr. Levin is professionally affiliated with leading organizations at the interface of religion, science, and medicine. This includes serving as the principal Research Area Consultant in the area of public health and medicine for the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, as a member of the Extended Faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, as a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and as Scientific Chair of the Kalsman Roundtable on Judaism and Health Research at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He was Chairman of the NIH Working Group on Quantitative Methods in Alternative Medicine, is a former member of the NIH Workgroup on Measures of Religiousness and Spirituality for the National Institute on Aging, and is a current or past member of the Editorial Boards of nine peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences; The Gerontologist; the Journal of Religion and Health; the Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging; the Journal of Mindbody States; Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine; Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine; the International Journal of Healing and Caring; and EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, in recognition of outstanding career achievement and exemplary contributions to the field of gerontology.
Dr. Levin is the author or co-author of over 150 scholarly publications, as well as over 140 conference presentations and invited lectures and addresses, mostly on the role of religion in physical and mental health and aging. He has published six books, most notably God, Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2001). He is also editor of Religion in Aging and Health: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Frontiers (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994); co-editor of Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999), Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson (New York, NY: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 2005), and the forthcoming Divine Love: Perspectives from the World’s Religious Traditions (West Conshocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2010); and, co-author of Religion in the Lives of African Americans: Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004). According to the Institute for Scientific Information, since 1981 Dr. Levin has been one of the most highly cited social scientists in the world.
Dr. Levin is an internationally known scientist and has lectured throughout the world on most aspects of the interface of religion and health—scientific, clinical, methodological, historical, theological, metaphysical, and with respect to public health and health policy. His research has been featured in many newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday, JAMA, Modern Maturity, Tikkun, Moment, Spirituality and Health, and in cover stories in Time, Readers’ Digest, and Macleans, and on national radio and television, including NPR, PBS, CBC, CTV, and CBN. His biography has been included in Who’s Who in Theology & Science, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and International Who’s Who in Medicine. In 2001, a statement in praise of his work was read into the Congressional Record from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a recipient of both the 1996 and 1997 Templeton Prize for Exemplary Papers in Religion and the Medical Sciences, and of several named or endowed lectureships. In 1997, he served as Distinguished Lecturer in Gerontology at Duke University Medical Center, and delivered the First Annual K.J. Lee Fellowship Lecture in Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2003, he delivered the First Annual David B. Larson Memorial Lecture in Religion and Health at Duke University Medical Center and the Sixth Annual Richard J. DeBottis Memorial Lecture in Gerontology at the University of Houston. In 2004, he delivered the Second Annual Blair Justice Lecture in Mind-Body Medicine and Public Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health. In 2006, he delivered the Fifth Annual Spirituality and Health Forum Lecture at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Dr. Levin is married to Dr. Lea Steele, an epidemiologist and human ecologist. Dr. Steele, who will be joining Baylor University as Research Professor in the Institute of Biomedical Studies, is former Scientific Director of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The Hidden Gifts of Helping
Not too long ago, we thought of the body as a machine and the brain as some sort of computer that ran the show. But much recent research indicates that the brain is essentially a social organ with its cells and pathways wired for empathy, for experiencing the joys and sufferings of others as if they were our own. Our brain, our hormones, and our immune system are an intimately related care-connection system.